Zack Fischer tees off on the ninth hole at the Nicklaus Tournament Course during the final round of the Web.com qualifying final at PGA West on Tuesday. Fischer won the tournament.

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Anyone who thinks this week's Web.com Tour qualifying finals lacked the status or the emotion of past finals needs to talk to Zack Fischer.

"This is the biggest thing to happen to me," Fischer said after a birdie-birdie finish gave him the outright victory in the Web.com Tour Q-school at PGA West.

A third-year pro out of the University of Texas-Arlington, Fischer has bounced around circuits like the Adams Tour and the NGA Tour the last two years, even qualifying last summer for the U.S. Open. But by being medalist in the six-day, 108-hole event in La Quinta, Fischer is now fully exempt for the 2014 ...